Display device



June 24, 1941.

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INVENTOR. 170% E. $644 2 6 ATTORNEYS.

J; R. DENNIS 2,246,622

ISPLAY D Patented June 24, 1941 DISPLAY DEVICE John R. Dennis, Providence, R. I., assignor to International Braid Company, a corporation of Massachusetts Application July 20, 1938, Serial No. 220,257

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a display device particularly for fancy articles which have a pattern effect on opposite sides and for such articles as tapes or braids and articles of this general class; and one of the objects of the invention is to provide a display device which will completely envclop a plurality of the articles to be displayed and protect them from becoming soiled and at the same time afford an opportunity to view both sides of the article without removing or touching the article in any manner.

Another object of the invention is to provide a display device having the above functions which will be simple in structure and extremely easy to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device with portions broken away to show the structure of the display device;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device before completion and looking at the interior thereof;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3--3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a fragmental perspective view of the window portion of the device;

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of one of the articles which may be displayed in the device.

Small tapes and braids are difficult to display, and it is frequently desirable especially when patterns are provided in the fabrics that both sides of the fabric be exposed to view. The positioning of a package of the fabric within a Cellophane wrapper or positioning of the fabric on a cardboard or the like beneath a single strip of Cellophane does not permit of both sides being viewed; and in order to avoid this difficulty I have afforded a card which is of a convenient size to be inserted in a long envelope and which card may carry advertising matter or pictures of the articles as sold, while in one portion of the card there will be provided a window and different articles showing a plurality of the different patterns which may be provided may be sampled Within the window, and as the window is provided on both parts of the card, which parts are secured together, the opposite surfaces of the displayed articles may be viewed; and the following is a more detailed description of the present embodiment of this invention, illustrating the preferred means by which these advantageous results may be accomplished:

With reference to the drawing, l0 designates a sheet of cardboard which is folded as at H to provide portions l2 and B. These portions are l6, I6 will register one with the other.

together face to face their edges I4, l4, I5, l5, In the portion l2 there is the rectangular opening 11 cut out, while in the portion Hi there is a rectangular opening l8 cut out. These openings are so positioned that they will register when the portions l2 and I3 are folded one on top of the other. A Cellophane strip of material I9, I 9 is secured over the openings I1 and I8 so as to lap the marginal edges of the opening as illustrated, and there secured together by some sort of cement.

The displayed merchandise such as 20, 20', etc., in narrow strips, here shown as short lengths of braided shoe laces, are secured in position across the window openings being cemented at their end portions M, 22 on top of the Cellophane 19' which covers one of the openings. The opposite member 'I 2 is then folded over the member l3 and the edges 23 along the edges l4, l5 and I6 are cemented together by some suitable adhesive. This provides two rather extended surfaces for advertising material with an actual specimen of the merchandise protected and located between the two members that both sides thereof may be displayed.

The foregoing description is directed solely towards the construction illustrated, but I desire it to be understood that I reserve the privilege of resorting to all the mechanical changes to which the device is susceptible, the invention being defined and limited only by the terms of the appended claim.

I claim:

A device for displaying a plurality of short lengths of strip material comprising a body formed of a pair of sheets of material in face to face contact with each other having registering openings, and a sheet of transparent material covering each opening and disposed between said body sheets, each of said transparent sheets being secured at its edge portions to the marginal side portions around the opening of one sheet, and the edges of said body sheet material being fixedly secured together, a plurality of short lengths of strip material located in spaced relation between said transparent sheets and extending entirely across the opening transversely of the sheets and having their ends overlapped by the opposite marginal edges of said body sheets about said opening with each strip secured at its ends to the rear face of one of the transparent sheets within the overlapped edge portion whereby the opposite obverse surfaces of the material will be presented to view and be visible through said transparent sheets.

JOHN R. DENNIS. 

